Button and means for attachment



(No Model.)

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,BUT-TON AND MEANSFOR ATTACHMENT.

No. 260,267. Patented June 27, 1882-.

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JOHN WILDE, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON AND MEANS FOR ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATIOKforming part of Letters Patent No. 260,267, dated June 27, 1882.

Application filed January 12, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WILDE, of North Attleborough, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new'and useful Improvement in Buttons and Means of Attaching Them, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure i represents a front view of a button constructed in accordance with theinvention, and as attached to a piece of cloth or other material. Fig. 2 is a back view of the same; Fig. 3, a transverse section thereof. Fig. 4 is a partially sectional front view of a modified construction of the button attached as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and Fig. 5 a transverse section thereof.

The invention consists in a metallic button concaved'on the upper side, convexed on the lower side, and provided with prongs cut out of the body of the button, as hereinafter described.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the button A, which may be made of metal or other suitable material, is stamped or cut to form two or more preferably radial prongs, a a, within the outer margin of its body and attached at their inner uncut ends to said body. These prongs constitute the fastening, which is of one piece with the body of the button, said prongs being struck up out of the same material as the body.

To secure the button to the material 13, said prongs a a, which are of tapering width and terminate in a point, are bent backward at right angles or thereabout to the face of the button, and projected through the cloth or material B, after which they are turned or bent over against the inner side of the cloth, or over a ring or perforated disk, I), answering as a washer, around the outer edge portion of which the pointed ends of the prongs may be bent, if ,glesired. This clinches the button securely to its place.

In Figs. 4 and 5 substantially the same construction and mode of fastening is shown as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, with the exception that the button A is made of a separate face-piece and a separate back-piece secured together to form a single body, and with thefasteningprongs a a struck up out of the back-piece of said body.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A metallic button concaved on the upper side, convexed on thelower side, and having prongs out within the outer margin of its body and connected therewith by the inner uncut ends, as described.

JOHN wILDE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS J. HALLIDAY, JOHN H. OHEATHAM, FEED. B. BYRAM. 

